STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 689, sig. 109-4/438 (damaged)

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199 part accommodated in Swatoborschitz. At present, there are in Swatoborschitz some of the arrests in KL.. The largest L100 2,000 persons, should remain in the internment camp Swato Borsch itz, while a part will be allowed to be accepted. The wives of Emi ranten, who initiated their divorce and separation on 4-upper group leader Heydrich already before the Aténtat. As could be determined, the action did not come unexpected to the affected, because the compilation work had to be carried out partly with the protectorate authority. In the Czech public, the action was taken up differently. In part, it is assumed that the German authorities want to exert a renewed pressure on the Czech population with these measures in order to be docile to them, in part, one sees in the festivities the proof that Germany must already be very bad, if one arrests completely innocent people. Only isolated voices blame these arrests on the Czechs living in emigration, who fight against the Reich in the context of the enemy army and partly as parachute agents. I urge, by appropriate control of the Czech press and possibly also of the radio, to evaluate the action propagandistically, t m so eventl. 57756 On behalf of: W-Obersturmbannführer S 109-4-418 8045b0